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[PATCH 2/2] bfp tools: Fix syscall argument

From Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 2/2] bfp tools: Fix syscall argument
Date 2016-04-25 04:40 +0200
Message-ID <rrEBk-6GB-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <rrEBk-6GB-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
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Coverity flagged this under CID 1354884 as a sizeof mismatch, it turns
out that the argument "attr" passed to syscall should have been a
pointer to attr in the first place.

Reported-by: coverity (CID 1354884)
Fixes: 8f9e05fb298f ("perf tools: Fix PowerPC native building")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
---
 tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c b/tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c
index 8236df9a46ca..e04ab89a1013 100644
--- a/tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c
+++ b/tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ int main(void)
 	 * Test existence of __NR_bpf and BPF_PROG_LOAD.
 	 * This call should fail if we run the testcase.
 	 */
-	return syscall(__NR_bpf, BPF_PROG_LOAD, attr, sizeof(attr));
+	return syscall(__NR_bpf, BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
 }
-- 
2.7.4

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[PATCH 0/2] bfp tools: Couple Coverity fixes Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 04:40 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] bfp tools: Remove expression with no effect Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 04:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] bfp tools: Remove expression with no effect "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-04-27 05:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] bfp tools: Remove expression with no effect Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> - 2016-04-27 16:40 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] bfp tools: Fix syscall argument Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 04:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] bfp tools: Fix syscall argument "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-04-27 05:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] bfp tools: Fix syscall argument Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> - 2016-04-27 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] bfp tools: Couple Coverity fixes Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 04:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] bfp tools: Couple Coverity fixes "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-04-27 05:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] bfp tools: Couple Coverity fixes Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 05:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] bfp tools: Couple Coverity fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> - 2016-04-27 16:30 +0200

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